«Очень удобно быть патриотом, когда ты двигаешься в фарватере государственной власти. Но когда жизнь подкидывает тебе ситуации, когда надо жертвовать, когда надо рисковать, когда надо убивать, идти против тренда, за что тебя могут убить, выпилить, отменить и т.д… Очень легко быть патриотом России, когда ты в большинстве. Когда, для того чтобы быть патриотом России, нужно идти против этого большинства, вот тогда настоящие убеждения и проявляются».
«Очень удобно быть патриотом, когда ты двигаешься в фарватере государственной власти. Но когда жизнь подкидывает тебе ситуации, когда надо жертвовать, когда надо рисковать, когда надо убивать, идти против тренда, за что тебя могут убить, выпилить, отменить и т.д… Очень легко быть патриотом России, когда ты в большинстве. Когда, для того чтобы быть патриотом России, нужно идти против этого большинства, вот тогда настоящие убеждения и проявляются».
You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. Crude oil prices edged higher after tumbling on Thursday, when U.S. West Texas intermediate slid back below $110 per barrel after topping as much as $130 a barrel in recent sessions. Still, gas prices at the pump rose to fresh highs. Apparently upbeat developments in Russia's discussions with Ukraine helped at least temporarily send investors back into risk assets. Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko that there were "certain positive developments" occurring in the talks with Ukraine, according to a transcript of their meeting. Putin added that discussions were happening "almost on a daily basis." On December 23rd, 2020, Pavel Durov posted to his channel that the company would need to start generating revenue. In early 2021, he added that any advertising on the platform would not use user data for targeting, and that it would be focused on “large one-to-many channels.” He pledged that ads would be “non-intrusive” and that most users would simply not notice any change. Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation.
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